DVD: His Girl Friday

DVD

Title:	His Girl Friday
More Titles:	The Front Page [1931]
Publisher:	The Criterion Collection
Country:	USA
Format:	DVD
Date:	10 Jan 2017
Region Code:	Region 1
Barcode:	715515189613
Cat#:	CC2705D
Genre:	Comedy, Rom-Com
Rating:	Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
Price Guide:	$35
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PRICE GUIDE

$35

Notes

TWO-DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
New high-definition digital restoration
New 2K restoration of Lewis Milestone's "The Front Page" (1931), made from a recently discovered print of the director's preferred version
New interview with film scholar David Bordwell about "His Girl Friday"
Archival interviews with director Howard Hawks
Featurettes from 1999 about Hawks, actor Rosalind Russell, and the making of "His Girl Friday"
Radio adaptation of "His Girl Friday" from 1940
New piece about the restoration of "The Front Page"
New piece about playwright and screenwriter Ben Hecht
Radio adaptations of the play "The Front Page" from 1937 and 1946
"His Girl Friday" trailers
PLUS: A booklet featuring essays on "His Girl Friday" and "The Front Page" by film critics Farran Smith Nehme and Michael Sragow

The Front Page [1931]
Released	1931
Director	Lewis Milestone
Selected Cast	Adolphe Menjou as Walter Burns
	Pat O'Brien as Hildy Johnson
	Mary Brian as Peggy Grant
	Edward Everett Horton as Bensinger
(Information from Cinema World)

His Girl Friday
Released	1940
Director	Howard Hawks
Selected Cast	Cary Grant as Walter Burns
	Rosalind Russell as Hildy Johnson
	Ralph Bellamy as Bruce Baldwin
	Gene Lockhart as Sheriff Hartwell
(Information from Cinema World)